Grown and harvested crop secured? Experts "AIF" share secrets, how to keep it for a long time and has its, natural.
Potatoes
■ In the box, wherein stored potatoes, place 3-4 apple: because the tubers will not germinate.
■ Instead of apples, you can use the leaves of mountain ash – on 5 kg of tubers is quite a handful of leaves.
■ «Optimal storage of potatoes black place at a temperature of 5-10°WITH – choose wood boxes, canvas bags or termopogreba», – knows way. head of the department of higher plants biological faculty of Moscow State University Vladimir Murashev.
Carrot
■ carrots dolezhit Before New Year… in sand. So there are not bred nasty insects, ignited sand on the griddle.
■ Instead of sand may be well-dried onion skins or wood (best coniferous) sawdust. Per kilogram of carrots need to 2-3 cup «filler».
■ Worst of all stored carrots, collected from a bed in hot weather. Her eat in the first place, and there, that gathered in the cold, Food.
■ Sprigs of mint in boxes with carrots posodeystvuyut last stay fresh longer.
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Beet
■ Place the beets on a bed of potatoes.
■ «Prokalonnogo mixture of sand and chalk pounded help keep the beets forever, – says biologist Stepan Yakovlev, – but this method does not help, If you use a plastic bag: vegetables, that beet, carrots, suffocated. required box, boxes or clay containers».
Cabbage
■ Let the cabbage plugs are not in contact with each other: put them away despite the fact that to 1 cm – eg, on the windowsill.
■ It is hung cabbage for kozheryzhki. But not a lot of people will be able to find this pretty space.
■ Wrap each fork in the food wrap and store in the balcony: this is the only vegetable, which is not zagniot from such treatment.
Pumpkin
■ long-term storage only fruit with thick skins (you read the description of varieties grown).
■ Do pumpkins leave very long storage, to 20 cm, spine.
■ Keep them on a windowsill: 18 best temperature°C and dry, but the pumpkin in the refrigerator will be bad.
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pears
■ «In pears, for storage, do not tear off the stalk, – recommends Stepan Yakovlev, – so they will lie a little longer».
■ As with apples, It can be wrapped pears in toilet paper and put in boxes.
■ Another method: «bury» pears in a box with sand prokalonnym. Make, so that the fruits do not touch.
■ Place the pears in layers in a box or drawer (always with access to air, laying between layers of straw.
tomatoes
■ People's recipe: smesiz necessary to prepare the egg white, salts and gelatin. Dip into it every fruit and allow to dry pomidorinam. So they are kept for six months.
■ Another national method: sterilized three-liter jar filled with sturdy tomatoes and covered with dry mustard powder, closing the top of the parchment.
■ Biologist Vladimir Murashev the least optimistic: «Store tomatoes so long pointless – after a couple of weeks in their little remains of nutrients. Better to take the greenhouse and do not take up space».
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Onion and garlic
■ Make holes in the food film, wrap each head separately and fold in the refrigerator, in the vegetable compartment.
■ Onions perfectly stored buried in sand. Heads need to dig vertically.
■ garlic heads can be treated with paraffin (from melted candles) and put in the cellar or on the balcony.
■ Great dried onion and garlic in well-kept apartment in a wicker basket.
■ If the room is dry, pour the onion and garlic husk: it will not give them to dry, and if wet – ash or wood shavings, periodically changing «filler». Ash and dust will absorb any excess water.
Zucchini and eggplant
■ Keep a variety with a thick skin and small seeds.
■ Be sure to remove the zucchini for storage until frost, on the other they are not long prolezhat.
■ Do not store overripe squash – the taste will deteriorate.
■ «Tail» zucchini for long-term storage – no less 5 cm, the length of the vegetable – from 15 to 45 cm. Do not take a very small and very large fruit.
■ Use old pantyhose: put in each stocking according to one courgettes and suspend in dry.
■ Keep the squash under the bed, just before that wrap each food in several layers of paper.
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apples
■ Take the recent, seasoning varieties. Wrap each apple with toilet paper and fold the layers in a cardboard box.
■ «bury» apples in onion skins and sawdust so, so that the fruit does not come into contact with each other.
■ An exotic way to – apple dip into the molten wax. They will lie to the subsequent spring, but, when you want to eat fruit, the skin will have to clean off.
■ It is best to store apples, that after the removal of the tree lying 4-5 days cool.
■ Store only removed from the tree apples: all fallen must be eaten. Otherwise, one spoiled apple will become a prerequisite for spoiling all.
Important!
■ Before, how do you store fruit, DO NOT wash them! «The surface of the fruit is covered with the finest natural wax, – explains Vladimir Murashev. – It has the effect of a natural antiseptic and preservative, It prevents penetration of oxygen into the. If you wash the fruit with a rag or protrote, the wax is broken – in this case, the rapid deterioration can not be avoided».
■ If you keep picking on the balcony, check the temperature: when it will be less than -10 at night°WITH, all stocks will need to be brought inside.
■ The oldest and most reliable, but a rather exotic method to keep the fruits until next spring – smear them piece by piece with watery clay and dry.
■ If you find a spoiled vegetable in a box, where do you keep the fruit, throw it away immediately, and put those stored nearby into action: they lie down for a long time, Alas, no longer able.
A source: aif.ru